Sentences with phrase «other black sharecroppers»

Set in hard - times Mississippi just before, during and after World War II and based on a 2008 novel by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound focuses on two poor families: one white farmers (the McAllans); the other black sharecroppers (the Jacksons) who work the former's land.

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Almost every other black family worked as sharecroppers, which meant that they did all the hard work on another man's land and then had to give most of the profit right back to the owner.

Many black residents were poor sharecroppers, but others owned their own farms and the land on which they'd founded the county's thriving black churches.